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Belgian Think Tank

Digital Autonomy

Knowledge sharing • Public debate • Policy proposals

BeLibre brings together Belgian digital thinkers to promote online sovereignty.

Jurgen Gaeremyn

Jurgen Gaeremyn

Long term open source advocate, board member of the Digital Freedom Foundation, founder of the BeLibre movement.

BeLibre

Having started the BeLibre movement in March of 2025, engagement has quickly grown. Why I started this project? Because Belgium currently doesn’t have active networking communities and groups that can voice the interest of the citizen.

Digital Freedom Foundation

Having organized Software Freedom Day since 2011, this event holds a dear place in my heart. Celebrating the merits of Software Freedom and how it has impacted my as an individual and society as a whole, runs are a red line through my life. When the movement was looking for new board members in 2023, I decided to step up and play a role in the Digital Freedom Foundation coordinating this event and similar other ones (Document Freedom Day and Hardware Freedom Day).

Hackerspace Brussels

It was a rainy evening in the spring of 2010, when I walked into the first location of Hackerspace Brussels: merely more than the livingroom of a dedicated hacker. Fifteen years later, the hackerspace has grown to become my nerdy second homebase.

Personal interestes

Like every father, I naturally grow an interest in the interests of my kids. Consequently you can see my interest for everythings related to horses, and in classical music and composing music, I’m especially fond of related FOSS or open projects like musescore and Openstreetmap, which actually supports horse back riding.


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